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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many of the Monuments Men were still in their twenties, according to the author in the introduction to Part I: “The Mission”?
(a) 5.
(b) 10.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

2. Shrivenham is described in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 8 as a small rural village about halfway between London and what city?
(a) Liverpool.
(b) Leeds.
(c) Bristol.
(d) Canterbury.

3. What is the date of the letter from Hitler directing Dr. Hans Posse on the construction of a museum in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 2?
(a) December 20, 1941.
(b) August 27, 1942.
(c) April 16, 1943.
(d) June 26, 1939.

4. When was Rose Valland born?
(a) July 7, 1907.
(b) March 15, 1899.
(c) November 1, 1898.
(d) September 12, 1901.

5. According to the author in Chapter 11 of Part II: “Northern Europe,” the Hotel de Ville library which was destroyed contained the whose charter?
(a) The Margrave Karl Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach’s.
(b) Adolf Hitler’s.
(c) William the Conqueror’s.
(d) Gauleiter Eigruber’s.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Irish writer and who lived in France described Saint-Lô as “the Capital of the Ruins” after the Allied victory there?

2. On what date was Michelangelo's Bruges Madonna sculpture taken by German soldiers in Belgium?

3. Where was Rose Valland born?

4. When did the Battle of Hürtgen Forest take place?

5. What museum in Aachen had Captain Walter Hancock spent the past month at as he attempted to determine where the works of art had been moved, according to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 17?

Short Essay Questions

1. What letter is quoted in the introduction to Part II: "Northern Europe"? Who wrote the letter?

2. What hardships did Harry Ettlinger and his family encounter in Karlsruhe, Germany, in the 1930s?

3. What reinforcements arrived to assist the Monuments Men in late 1944? What were their roles?

4. When did the Monuments Men operate? What was their mission in World War II?

5. Where were Captain Robert Posey and Captain Walker Hancock assigned after the victory of the Allies in Metz? What did they discover in these locations?

6. When did the Allied forces bomb the abbey at Monte Cassino, Italy? How did this event reflect upon the Allies?

7. How does the author describe the mission of Captain Mason Hammond in Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 6?

8. What did Captain Walter Hancock find in Aachen, Germany during his trip there in late November of 1944?

9. How is Harry Ettlinger’s arrival in Europe described in Part III: “Germany,” Chapter 24? When did he arrive?

10. When did Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer arrive in Normandy? What was his mission there?

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